[profile pic alt text: mandala of Buddha Amita; source: https://www.himalayanart.org/items/57637]
[banner image alt text: stained glass in Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan; source: me]
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I'm lurking here. No need to follow me just because I'm following you.
I'm more #Buddhist than anything nowadays, so identity isn't my thing. All pronouns are fine, but I prefer singular to plural.
I'm really new to the fediverse, so if I've done something to offend you, it probably wasn't my intention.
#PPOD: Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of sunlight by different amounts. T Also captured were unusual cloud ripples above the pileus cloud. The formation of a rare pileus cloud capping a common cumulus cloud is an indication that the lower cloud is expanding upward and might well develop into a storm. Credit: Jiaqi Sun
Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:
Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell
Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan
Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa
Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee
Tony Webster
@tony
Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder
I've been over on the other site reviewing the "big reveal" that Musk promised tonight, and... if you're not reading it, suffice to say, you've missed nothing.
The revelations so far... confirmed everything Twitter has said earlier, denied that there was any gov't pressure to remove the laptop story, highlighted the challenges of content moderation... and involved Matt Taibbi stupidly revealing personal email addresses of famous people.
French authorities declare the use of Microsoft Office and Google Docs illegal in schools and education markets, as they don’t follow GDPR and might disturb later competition by making students used to these proprietary solutions.
SETI Institute
Julian Sanchez
Tiffany Li
The Volatile Mermaid
Mike Masnick ✅
Unicorn Riot
Nick @ The Linux Experiment